chance

Signification

Noun

1. An opportunity or possibility.
2. Random occurrence; luck.
3. The probability of something happening.
4. probability; possibility.
5. What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.

Adj

Happening by chance, casual.

Adv

Perchance; perhaps.

Verb

1. To happen by chance, to occur.
2. To befall; to happen to.
3. To try or risk.
4. To discover something by chance.
5. To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
6. To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

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Étymologie

From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.